I had bloods taken yesterday because it was about time had my constant tiredness and irritability investigated. My GP gave me my the test results back today, he skimmed them and said they were "fine".
I'm like, there's black boxes around a few of them. They're off the scales?
"Marginal, it's not bad."
I go home and look some numbers up.
My glucose level (not fasting, I had blood taken a couple of hours after breakfast, after running some errands) was 62 mg/dl.
Apparently that's hypoglycemic.
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I've managed to get an appointment at an endocrinology clinic in a few weeks. I'm not leaving it at that.
No wonder I'm so tired.
All the advice says keep little sugary (but healthy?) snacks around to put me back over the line when I'm low sugar. But I'm not diabetic. I'm not taking insulin or Metformin.
I'm already pretty fat as my body likes tucking away my energy. Presumably my insulin is doing its job fine - or too well, even. I don't want to feed the beast.
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It's so weird to be someone who clearly has energy reserves, lol. I'm covered in them. Yet my body lets me get to hypoglycemia instead of releasing it. Wtf?
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I happen to have an old blood sugar meter and strips hanging around that someone gave me, and I'm like, no wonder I'm tired. I'm definitely getting low readings often.
I ordered more test strips (within expiry, unlike the ones I have) and control solution, to check these values are real. Then I can start researching when and maybe why it's happening to me.
I seem to have overactive insulin, with reactive hypoglycemia after meals (like sugar crashes), even after only an omelette for breakfast!
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This is annoying tbh because all the advice on the internet about low blood sugar is based on diabetic people injecting insulin, which I'm not, or assuming it's a sugar crash after a high/refined carb or very sugar meal, which this also is not.
We have no white bread in the house, use mostly wholemeal pasta, cook as much as we can from scratch.
I do, when jittery and struggling, eat a little leftover Christmas chocolate - so I've effectively been doing what diabetics do when sensing a hypo.
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I mean, very likely I am still eating too much carb for my body - whether wholegrain or not. So will work on that. I have done well on a low/no carb diet before.
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So for anyone interested - maybe it is a sign of prediabetes after all, but not the usual route. Who knows. Glad I have an appointment next month:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7192270/
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Sooo I've just flipped myself into a low carb diet.
So I get to enjoy the crash/keto flu/withdrawal in a day or two. Fun.
About time I try something, it's been a long time since I ate low/no carb, and it was indeed good for me.
Let's hope it helps push away the exhaustion that's been plaguing me for the last 6 months.
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I'd like to be less tired. I fell off the low carb wagon pretty quickly after a few days, sadly.
Not because of withdrawal, instead habit and routine - I feel like it's almost impossible to eat a different kind of diet than the rest of the family.
Looking forward to the appointment next week.
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@sarajw I tried Keto last week and damn that was hard! I tried three days. I think I only succeeded in less than 50 grams of carbs one day. Oof. So I get how hard it is
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@Anneke oh yeah three days in is when it kicks you, too!
I see the endocrinologist pretty soon so going to try and get them to agree a long OGT test to root out what's going on, and I'd probably have to eat "normal" before that anyway.
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@sarajw It's so hard to stick to when you need to get stuff done. I found it doable during lockdown when I could control all my meals and fill the fridge with low carb snacks but since then I haven't been able to continue.
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